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brendalaI saw Toy Story 3 yesterday and the experience went something like this...
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This movie is very conflicting. It constantly jumps between being funny, dramatic, and outright depressing. Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie. But it's also a bit of a bummer. It left me in a total funk for the rest of the day.
Before Toy Story started, there was a trailer for the live-action Smurf movie. Those CGI smurfs will haunt my nightmares for a while. O_o
I also saw a trailer for some weird owl movie (Guardian of Something-or-other) by the same people who did Happy Feet. Hopefully the owl movie won't be a plodding, preachy piece of over-rated garbage like Happy Feet was.
Day and Night was one of the best shorts Pixar has ever done. The mix of 2D and CGI was done brilliantly and the "sound effects as dialogue" gimmick was very clever. I could watch it all day.
As for Toy Story 3, it was fun to see toys I played with as kid show up in the movie. My Barbie house had the same plastic elevator as Ken's (but my house was made of cardboard and not nearly as fancy as his). And I think my Ken had some of the same clothes as movie-Ken.
I'm also sure that Lotso is based on a real teddy bear from the 80s because I remember scented dolls we're all the rage back then. And I know I had a lot of the preschoolers' toys (like the phone and the See'n'Say/Roulette wheel).
The Big Baby character seriously got to me. The fact that it had a real baby voice made it really unsettling (especially during the Daisy flashback and the dumpster scene). But it did make me smile when Barbie and Ken apparently "adopted" Big Baby in the end.
On a happier note, I LOVED the new Spanish cover of 'You Got a Friend In Me'. I may buy the soundtrack just for that. ^_^
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This movie is very conflicting. It constantly jumps between being funny, dramatic, and outright depressing. Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie. But it's also a bit of a bummer. It left me in a total funk for the rest of the day.
Before Toy Story started, there was a trailer for the live-action Smurf movie. Those CGI smurfs will haunt my nightmares for a while. O_o
I also saw a trailer for some weird owl movie (Guardian of Something-or-other) by the same people who did Happy Feet. Hopefully the owl movie won't be a plodding, preachy piece of over-rated garbage like Happy Feet was.
Day and Night was one of the best shorts Pixar has ever done. The mix of 2D and CGI was done brilliantly and the "sound effects as dialogue" gimmick was very clever. I could watch it all day.
As for Toy Story 3, it was fun to see toys I played with as kid show up in the movie. My Barbie house had the same plastic elevator as Ken's (but my house was made of cardboard and not nearly as fancy as his). And I think my Ken had some of the same clothes as movie-Ken.
I'm also sure that Lotso is based on a real teddy bear from the 80s because I remember scented dolls we're all the rage back then. And I know I had a lot of the preschoolers' toys (like the phone and the See'n'Say/Roulette wheel).
The Big Baby character seriously got to me. The fact that it had a real baby voice made it really unsettling (especially during the Daisy flashback and the dumpster scene). But it did make me smile when Barbie and Ken apparently "adopted" Big Baby in the end.
On a happier note, I LOVED the new Spanish cover of 'You Got a Friend In Me'. I may buy the soundtrack just for that. ^_^
